Multi-User Domains (MUDs) and Educational Possibilities
Telecommunications In Education (TIE) Meeting
Raleigh, North Carolina
March 28, 1996
More than anything else, the Internet is a community -- a community of people who have discovered resources both digital and human the access of which suffers no bound, neither political, sexual, racial, religious, nor appearance.
MUDs (or MUSEs, MOOs, MUCKs, etc) are text-based virtual environments the richness of which depend on the creativity and emotional effect of their descriptions. People meet, talk, play, and construct their own virtual environments under their own self-created identities in these MUDs.
For children, it provides an opportunity to shake off the constraints of the real world and interact and construct based on descriptive writing and text-based interaction. A treasure chest of experience is the prize and communication is the key.
This web page serves as a handout for a talk delivered by David Warlick to the Raliegh TIE (Telecommunications In Eduation) on March 28, 1996.
Resources:
- Windows Client Software in Tables format and Non-Tables format
- Macintosh Client software
Some Educational MUDs
- Moose Crossing
- MOOSE Crossing is a place where kids 13 and under can come to meet other kids from around the world, build new places to hang out, and program cool objects to play with. You could build a swamp next to the forest, a pet store in town, or maybe a disco in The Emerald City. You could make an elephant that tells elephant jokes, or a robot that asks people what they think about nuclear power. The world of MOOSE Crossing is built by kids, for kids.
- MediaMOO
- MediaMOO is a professional community for media researchers. It is a place to come meet colleagues in media studies and related fields and brainstorm, to hold colloquia and conferences, to explore the serious side of this new medium.
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